15 Totally Flawless Movie Monologues
5. You Can't Handle The Truth! - A Few Good Men (1992)
Perhaps the most iconic and widely parodied monologue on this entire list, Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Colonel Nathan Jessop comes to a head when he's put on the stand by eager and inexperienced lawyer Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) and interrogated about his role in the death of a soldier under his command.
A Few Good Men, penned by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Rob Reiner, is one of the best legal dramas ever made, and highlights the immeasurable talents of its stars - particularly Cruise, Kevin Bacon and Demi Moore - but no moment in the film is as brilliantly conceived as Nicholson's final speech.
Pushed by Kaffee, Jessup erupts on the stand and goes on a raging rant about how difficult, misunderstood and heroic his job is, before finally snapping and admitting he ordered the death of one of his own men.
What Jessup says is, in a case, frighteningly accurate - few of the other characters are willing to comprehend the enormity of his role in military - but it's also arrogant and self-important, a thin attempt to mask an inexcusable crime, and ultimately his undoing.